Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Obama and the superbranding of politics

Monday, January 25th, 2010My god Naomi Klein takes me back - No Logo is up there for anyone who is remotely interested in brands. And were I to draw up a time line of books I have read and how each book subsequently ...

Mandleson, ethics, culture, commerce and copyright law

Saturday, November 21st, 2009[caption id="attachment_4715" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="The architecture of authority (photograph Richard Ross)"][/caption]Just as the leaks predicted, the UK government has offered up its Digital Economy Bill, which includes massive changes to copyright law, including the power of the government to effectively ...

Transparency and the web a rolling debate

Thursday, November 12th, 2009Lawrence Lessig raises what will be a increasingly intense debate, and the perils of openness in governmentIf health care reform ever emerges from Congress, it is certain to spread nationally a project to require doctors to reveal to an Internet-linked ...

Democracy lock down – but where is that exactly?

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009But its a bit complicated. However I think that communication technologies today are so powerful within a networked context that we are going to witness things we never thought possible - good and bad. In my lifetime I never ever ...

I suppose going back to the way things were is a bit out of the question?

Friday, October 2nd, 2009Euan Semple writes about his antipathy to the phrase Enterprise 2.0,Stowe Boyd wrote today about his discomfort with the phrase Enterprise 2.0 and his preference for "social business" as a way of describing the changes we are seeing currently. While ...

The best kind of rules are those we apply to ourselves

Monday, September 14th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4400" align="aligncenter" width="252" caption="Johnny Cash walking the line: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8697877@N06/531859329"][/caption]Nice one Jamais, who goes onto to say in his postThe best kind of rules are those we apply to ourselves, those we believe in. Ethics--sometimes thought of as "how you ...

Turn off your TV and Do something more interesting instead

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009I met a lovely lady at the Do Lectures - Leonora Oppenheim from Treehugger.She has written some great posts on the Do LecturesHere and here

Traditional media must “engage” or die

Thursday, August 13th, 2009Half the country's 1,300 local newspapers will close between now and 2013, destroying 20,000 media jobs. There will be a decline of original content across the board that will have enormous consequences for democracy.Its not that journalism, news and newspapers ...

Communities Dominate Brands – prescient

Saturday, August 1st, 2009Tim Harrap in a twitter post mentioned a conversation @ Marketing in Australia that identifies Communities Dominate Brands as being – prescient. We have become linked to what is now commonly called Social Media - thought I still prefer the ...

A people will only be free when they control their own communications

Thursday, July 30th, 2009The Guardian writesIn the first of our Activate videos, Gerry Jackson, founder and director of SW Radio Africa, delivers a powerful and humbling presentation on the difficulties of providing independent information to a country stripped of its most fundamental freedoms. ...

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